"Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white."
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"I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach."
"A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well."
"The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion"
"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil."
"Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it."
"If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers"
"The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper."
"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes."
"These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes."
"Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end."
"Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."
"They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols."
"Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper."
"Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed."
"My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together."
"I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person."
"When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle."
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"